Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussing "The Problem of Perón" [TIME, March 19], you expressed a certain despair and doubt that Washington could ever turn the Argentine dictator away from totalitarianism. It is my belief that this is not the Problem of Perón but the Problem of Evita, and I offer . . . the following solution...
Dallin argues that Communist strength at home and abroad is based primarily on a "bandwagon effect" created by belief in Communist invincibility, and not on the desire of impoverished peoples to improve their lot. Hence he believes that the United States should concentrate, not on Point Four programs and the like, but on causing the Soviet to lose face--thus destroying the myth of Russian invincibility...
Dallin fails, however, to show how the United States can achieve this result short of all-out war. And presumably he does not endorse all-out war, despite his belief that Soviet leaders expect war with the U.S., since he feels that Russia cannot be conquered by outsiders...
...apparently constructed to prove a point, not to measure attitudes accurately. In attempting to prove this point, the investigators broke the first rule of polling. By inserting a "rider clause" at the beginning of a question ("Desiring peace, I believe..."), the investigator forced the student to subscribe to a belief which was irrelevant to the main question. It is not surprising that the poll was declared invalid by "a faculty member who asked that his name be withheld...
...20th Century-Fox). Four badmen, escaped from jail, seize an isolated stagecoach station and wait for the big gold shipment to come through. They kill the stationmaster, grab his assistant (Tyrone Power) as a foil, and hold a stranded traveler (Susan Hayward) and a toddler as hostages in the belief that they are Power's wife & child...